Why, oh why do people keep saying that the single picture of Anne Hathaway reveals anything about the new catwoman costume. You can’t even see the damn thing. I can see the arms and a part of her leg. How the hell am I supposed to know what that costume looks like.

What’s not so blatantly obvious … what if the kids in question, while wearing school identifying clothing (like a uniform) and while clearly on school property, take pictures of themselves in lewd or compromising poses … but post those pictures after hours on a non-school social network.

That happened locally and I applaud the school for banning them from school activities for doing this. In effect … these kids were publically representing the school while being douche bags… and if the school chooses not to be publically represented by douche bags I think they should have that right.

Is “penultimate” the word of the month? I’m sure I’ve never seen it before August and now I’ve observed about five different people using it. Is it a real english word? Has it only been recently invented?

Speaking of which … I just got a two page letter from Mitt Romney asking for money so he can be our next President. He didn’t say one thing in the letter about why he is more qualified then any of the other candidates. Nor did he give ANY ideas for what he would do to fix the economy. Just two pages of how evil Obama is.

You know, when the “Still Alive” song started, I was expecting Jack to cut in after a few seconds with another “No, that’s not it”. Then, as I continued listening, the idea started forming in my mind that “You know, that kinda sounds like Amy Bowen singing….” and then I was certain. And then a smile crept across my face as another thought formed “Awesome”

I know I probably just lost many street cred points for not being able to spell cthulhu without Mr google’s help.

But please forgive me

You must know after years of reading my comments that I have a very basic knowledge of writing and spelting any words korrectly, as well as a laughably minute knowledge of punctuation and how it should be used in a sentence.

I get to agree with Jack.
I still say they spent their whole budget hiring big named actors and a Summer Glau look-a-like (couldn’t they have just hired Summer?)and had no money left for the little things … like a script … or editing.

My real disappointment is that, as “mindless summer fun” films go, I think it could have been a really good movie. At least as good as Iron Man.

Also saw Rise of Planet of the Apes. Really enjoyed it, but also realized I was missing a lot of in jokes because I never saw the originals. So watched the original Planet of the Apes on Amazon video when I got home.

Well, I knew the story (and the ending) but had never actually seen it. I got a few references from the new movie, like “Bright Eyes”, “it’s a mad house” and “get your paws off me, you damn dirty ape!” And of course, the Statue of Liberty. But I knew that one already.

Realized I’m being drained by all the negativity around me and in the world. Most of it, I can’t do anything about. So for at least one day, I am not watching/reading news about the economy or wars, I’m not reading political posts, I’m looking for the good and uplifting. Maybe I’m burying my head a bit in the sand, but the daily stress of worry about things I have no control over is unhealthy. Give me some positive stuff, guys!

I got lucky we can agree on every thing because there is next to nothing to agree on.
We have no house, no savings, very little 401k. hense, my post yesterday about looking at bank accounts.
We also didn’t have kids. she did and I never adopted them.
I told her she could keep whatever I just don’t care.
we also can’t afford to disagree and get lawyers.

We took Fray in for her 9 month checkup and her height weight and head size are all good, right around 75 percentile. Afterwards she had bloodwork and was amazing. A little yelp when the needle pinched, but that was it.

If you wanna be with me, baby There’s a price you pay I’m a DEADPAN in a bottle You gotta rub me the right way If you wanna be with me I can make your wish come true You gotta make a big impression I gotta like what you do

I’m a DEADPAN in a bottle, baby Gotta rub me the right way, honey I’m a DEADPAN in a bottle, baby Come, come, come and let me out

I won’t be going back and looking at the comments I missed. A week is just too much for my little brain to handle. If I’ve missed birthdays, anniversaries, or anything else consider my congrats a given.

Good Morning Pannites.
So far no construction outside but somebody left a barbecue grill in the parking lot.
So…. how do you keep your motivation up when you know that your “lay off date” is two weeks away? Any suggestions?

Sorry.
Been through that.
I know I tried to focus on spending what time I could, getting prepped for the job search. Making resume’, searching the net for possible openings and such.
Of course I had management that allowed such things.
My department also took things into our own hands. Everyone in the company knew this was coming and we watched others getting picked-off. My group was small and basically couldn’t do our job with any less personnel then we had … so we sat down and figured out how long it would take to finish all projects that were underway … and then had our dept. manager go to the V.P. and say, “Hey, how about laying us all off during the week of (can’t remember the date).
The VP was stunned. This had ever happened.
I have to say there was some satisfaction in taking ones fate into one’s own hands. It was also a great relief not worrying about “when” they were coming for you.

Thank you all. Yeah, I’ve known for a month now. I’ve reached the point of I’m ready to move on, just trying to find the next opportunity. While they are open to giving me time to conduct interviews etc, I’m in a pretty open floor plan (literally six people can see my computer screen at any time) and can’t spend all day on the boards. They are also mixed on what they give me to work on since they don’t want to give me anything important and I am growing bored with what I do have.

For those who may remember, I had to get my Boo a car as she was in an accident and her’s was written off. In a, I don’t know how it happened moment, her good used car turned into us getting a new car instead. We pick it up this afternoon. Boo will get hubby’s old car.

My experiment with focusing on positive news and avoiding negative news yesterday seems to have worked and I’m feeling much better today. I know you can’t (and shouldn’t) ignore all the negative stuff, but making sure positive gets equal billing is important. The world doesn’t completely suck.

*sigh*
What I felt was Penn’s over arching point of that piece seems to be lost on those that have posted comments.
He’s not opposed to helping people. He’s not even opposed to our government helping people. He’s just plainly stating that he doesn’t know what the best way to do that is and that he doesn’t believe any, single other person does either.

Thank you!
That is immediately what sprang into my mind. This is old tech. You have what is basically a digitizing tablet under the ice in the goal and you put a sensor in the puck. Then you’d have the exact path of where the puck traveled in the net.

Poor hubby was raving against the weather last night. We picked up his new car in the afternoon and by bed time it was hailing. We don’t have a garage. He was not a happy camper. It wasn’t really bad hail. I think the car will be fine. I don’t know though, he left for work before I woke up. Damn cat wouldn’t let me sleep last night.

The convention I was working on this year, and occurred last weekend. Those of you in the know will be happy to hear I sent an e-mail to the group telling them I’m taking a more passive role this year. Hopefully I’ll be able to stick to it. 😉

I need help pan…. So our assignment is very similar to what was done here recently. “Instead of the traditional short anecdote about your favorite song, or what it means to you, I’d like to know what you want your intro music to be. In the same way the President gets ‘Hail to the Chief’ whenever he walks on stage, or a ball player gets some kind of rock music when he steps up to the plate. We are going to have Toastmasters intro music. It can be a song that gets you pumped up before a game, or you can use it to set the mood of the audience, whatever you would like played while you walking up to the podium. Keep in mind that it will only be a 10 sec portion of the song, so if there is something specific, please let me know.”

It will not make sence unless you’ve either seen the movie or are watching it with me.
Spoilers are a given
Spelling will be wrong – especially when the iPad’s auto correct takes over
Also, because of stupid WordPress, there will be an extended version once Jack releases the comment.

Having a couple of Hugh’s work friends over for dinner. 3 guys that have worked on his team with him forever.

I love having dinner parties 🙂 I like to entertain. Picking my recipes for tonight right now.

Of course Hugh’s chef brother will have to give me 1000 tips on the recipes I pick, which I of course love 🙂 I highly recommend convincing someone if your family to go to cooking school. Your stomach will forever thank you.